By Harris S.B. No. 312 75R3549 ESH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the use of certain information in appraising a public 1-3 school teacher. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 21.351, Education Code, is amended by 1-6 amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (e) to read as 1-7 follows: 1-8 (a) The commissioner shall adopt a recommended appraisal 1-9 process and criteria on which to appraise the performance of 1-10 teachers. The criteria must be based on observable, job-related 1-11 behavior, including: 1-12 (1) teachers' implementation of discipline management 1-13 procedures; and 1-14 (2) the performance of teachers' students, subject to 1-15 Subsection (e). 1-16 (e) The criteria used in the recommended appraisal process 1-17 may not include the ratio of failing grades given by a teacher to 1-18 all grades given by the teacher. 1-19 SECTION 2. Section 21.352, Education Code, is amended by 1-20 adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-21 (e) The criteria used in the appraisal process developed by 1-22 the district- and campus-level committees may not include the ratio 1-23 of failing grades given by a teacher to all grades given by the 1-24 teacher. 2-1 SECTION 3. This Act applies beginning with the 1997-1998 2-2 school year. 2-3 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-9 passage, and it is so enacted.